Hi folks,
I've been updating some old patches which make use of a function to
translate guest virtual addresses into pointers into the guest RAM.
As I understand it qemu has guest virtual and physical addresses, the
latter of which map somehow to host ram addresses.
The function which the code had been using appears not to work under
kvm, which leads me to think that qemu doesnt emulate the MMU (or at
least not in the same manner) when it is using kvm as opposed to pure
emulation.
If I turn off kvm, the patch works, albeit slowly. If I enable it, the
code takes the path which looks for the magic value (below).
Is there a 'proper' way to translate guest virtual addresses into host
RAM addresses?

cpu_physical_memory_map().

But this function has some subtle characteristics. It may return a
bounce buffer if you attempt to map MMIO memory. There is a limited
pool of bounce buffers available so it may return NULL in the event that
it cannot allocate a bounce buffer.

It may also return a partial result if you're attempting to map a region
that straddles multiple memory slots.